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Relive the 90’s With SimCopter and Streets of SimCity Mods
Remember back in the ’90s when SimCity was the king of sand-box city building? Sure, these days I’m more a Cities Skylines fan. However, back then, SimCity was in its prime. The series had a lot of spin-offs, some of which even ended becoming The Sims! However, one thing that…
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SimCity Developers Maxis Closed Down by EA
Game developer Maxis, creator of “successful” franchises The Sims and SimCity, is being consolidated by its parent company, Electronic Arts. Though the Maxis label will still be used on its existing series as a brand name, the studio itself has been dissolved. The news was announced during the Game Developers…
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Why Build A City In SimCity When You Can 3D Print it!?
If you’re a big SimCity fan then this latest use for 3D Printing could be right up your street. A designer called Ittyblox has produced modular buildings from the SimCity game using 3D Printing. As you might expect, they aren’t to scale, but if you like the novelty of having decorative gaming paraphernalia then…
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Maxis Considering Offline Mode But Not Larger Maps For SimCity, Too Little Too Late?
In a blog post the Maxis General Manager Patrick Buechner has stated that the team at Maxis are still considering some of the “larger asks” that fans have been asking for such as implementing an offline mode or creating larger city maps. Of course since SimCity’s release the game has been…
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EA Reveal SimCity Red Cross Charity Pack, 80% Of Sale Price Goes To Charity
EA is being the good guy once again and has unveiled another stunt that will no doubt do good things for its public image. SimCity will get a Red Cross charity DLC pack which will cost $9.99. EA has pledged to give 80% of the post tax profits on the…
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Three Big Devs Quit Maxis To Make New Game ‘Tethys’
Ocean Quigley has announced that he has now left EA and Maxis, joining forces with two other former Maxis employess and that he has formed a brand new indie studio called Jellygrade. Quigley was the SimCity creative director for Maxis, having worked on titles in the Sim City series such…
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SimCity Goes On Sale And New Airship DLC Is Launched
If you have yet to purchase SimCity and you have been waiting for a sale, now might be the right time to buy. Unless of course you just are not interested in the game. I am one where I will read what others comment about games, but it seems that…
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Breaking News: Sim City for Macintosh Pushed Back To August
SimCity’s senior producer Kip Katsarelis announced today vai the Sim City Blog that they will not be bringing SimCity to Mac users, yet, and not on June 11th either, as stated before. Mac users will not be able to play their version of SimCity until at least August, the new date…
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SimCity Amusement Park DLC Released
Do you play SimCity? If you do, you know very well that SimCity has had a ton of issues with their newest release. Though they have been working to fix all of the issues that their servers have had, and glitches within the game they still haven’t gotten them all…
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Sim City 4.0 Update Available For Download Today
SimCity is due to received update version 4.0 today which brings in a lot of old and new features to the game. In terms of the “old” things, it brings back those things which were taken offline to reduce server strain such as leaderboards. Dynamic global market prices and region…
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Analysis: Were EA Right About SimCity? The Evidence Says That They Were!
It’s been two months now since the release of the latest Sim City, and it sure has been an adventure in terms of PR for both consumers and EA alike. Yet two months is a long time in the gaming world and people are quick to move onto the next farce and…
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Sapphire Bundling SimCity With Its 1GB Radeon HD 7790
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention recently there has been something of a “game war” going on between AMD and Nvidia. On the AMD side we have seen them expand their Never Settle Reloaded Bundle to include more games than ever before, in addition to that they…
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SimCity Update 2.0 Coming Monday April 22nd
According to a lot of Gamers SimCity has been desperately in need of quite a few AI and bug fixes and it looks like the development team at Maxis are responding to that. EA and Maxis are launching version 2.0 of the game which promises to bring a huge number…
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EA Vows To Improve Relationship With Gamers, Mainly Rhetoric
EA has been having a tough time of late with its public relations after being voted the worst company in America for 2013 by the readers of the consumerists, it lost to the Bank of America by gaining 75% of the votes. EA also experience numerous criticisms and controversies over…
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AMD To Bundle SimCity With Select A10 and A8 APUs From April 18th
AMD’s Never Settle and Never Settle Reloaded gaming bundle deals have been incredibly successful, helping increase the value for money consumers get when purchasing select AMD products. AMD knows it has been successful and is looking to extend this type of bundle deal to its FM2 “Trinity” APUs. According to…
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